Robert Morgan ,quotes

I learned to impersonate the k...

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

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I seem to keep returning to my...

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

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I think that it's more likely ...

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

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If people associate me with a ...

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

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In the best fiction, the langu...

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

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In the later books I am much m...

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

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Maybe the example of Southern ...

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

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Neither of my parents has been...

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

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Some people swear by writing c...

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

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Some people want to call me an...

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

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Southern poets are still writi...

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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The best books of our times ha...

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

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With prose you can incorporate...

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

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I don't think American poetry ...

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

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I have taught students from th...

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

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The young people have MTV and ...

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

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Among the American contemporar...

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

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I tell students they will know...

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

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The fact that something is in ...

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

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The decision to write in prose...

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

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